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From: Jean-Pierre Rosen <rosen@adalog.fr>
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Subject: Re: What is wrong with Ada?
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Brian May a �crit :
> Assuming you notice that a bug exists. This is a big problem I have
> had especially with most interpreted languages. The only way you can
> be sure the code is bug free is too regularly test every possible
> path, including different error conditions. Otherwise you find that
> after a minor but unexpected error condition your previously working
> code calls display__error() instead of display_error() and it becomes
> a fatal function-not-found error (even if you swear: I didn't change
> that line!).
Hmm... We are talking Ada here. Double underscores are not allowed 
(precisely to avoid that kind of issue), and it is impossible to build 
an incomplete program!

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